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Crohn's disease and Ulcerative Colitis

Inheritance patterns and prenatal diagnosis

Inheritance patterns
No definitive inheritance patterns have been scientifically established although there appears to be a familial tendency to develop the conditions and considerable evidence of inflammatory bowel disease running in families and even with siblings of the same parents.

Prenatal diagnosis
None

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Medical text written September 2000 by the Crohn's in Childhood Research Association. Approved September 2000 by Professor I Sanderson. Last reviewed October 2005 by Professor I Sanderson, Professor of Paediatric Gastroenterology, St Bartholomew's and Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK.

 

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